Bronson High's three-month long search for a new head football coach is over.

Enter Al Cooksey, a 60-year-old who has coached the sport many years in parts north of Levy.

Most recently, Cooksey coached at tiny Hilliard High north of Jacksonville. He was there one year at the Class 1A school, finishing 2-8 with a squad that started eight sophomores.

"It was a unique situation," said Cooksey, who will teach physical education at BHS. "I replaced a coach who was ill, but he got better and wanted his job back. He had been there something like 27 years. I stepped aside."

The Williston High School softball program unveiled a memorial dedicated to Ann Williams Planas, a former player who died of cancer several years ago after refusing chemotherapy because of possible damage to her unborn child. The memorial is at the field near Williston Elementary School where the girls play their home games.

Somewhere in the past, someone in Florida decided not to hold city elections on Election Day. So here we are, just a few weeks after the presidential primary election, ready to hold a city election next Tuesday.

There are a couple of issues on the ballot. One has to do with economic growth, which would allow tax exemptions to entice businesses to move here.

It's a necessary evil, given the competitive climate throughout the state of communities that want the jobs that go with new industry and/or business.

The cats and dogs of Levy County got a big boost Saturday as country chart-topper Chris Cagle headlined the Bark-N-Purr Benefit in Bronson. The event, a fund-raiser for the Humane Society of Levy County's planned spay, neuter and adoption facility, attracted more than 2,700 visitors, according to organizers.

Cagle rocked the soccer field at Bronson Youth League as his stamping, chanting fans sang along to such hits as "What Kinda Gone" and "My Love Goes On and On and On" as well as a sleeper from the new album, "Change Me."

The Friends of the Williston Public Library will hold the March First Saturday Book Fair, March 1 at the Williston City Hall Community Center.

The hours will be from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and, as always the best buys are for the early birds.

The Book Fair is a major source of donations for "Friends", because the books themselves are donated, as are the donations that people give to take the books home. Suggested donations amounts will be displayed in the center during the fair.